This digital photo frame, designed to look like a retro TV set, is small enough to hang on a keyring and it will allow you to easily bring some of your favorite photographs on the go.

To transfer images to the frame and to recharge it, simply hook it up via a USB port. Unfortunately, there is no information about the storage capacity for this photo viewer.

The TV Digital Photo Keyring will soon be available from the Thumbs Up website. The suggested retail price has been set to £19.99 (about $33 USD).

Looking for an alternative to the previously covered Retro USB Microphone and the Retro Wireless USB Microphone? Here’s a new retro computer mic that might be just the ticket.

Features:

• Driverness, plug and play
• Special design for chatting over MSN, Skype and singing over internet
• High quality microphone with noisy cancellation, prefect voice recorder
• High-performance microphone accurately reproduces sound
• Conveniently set with the help of stand and clip
• Volume control, LED indicator
• Sensitivity: -55dB +/- 2dB
• Impedance: < 2.2 ohms
• Sensitivity reduction: within -3dB at 1V
• Operation voltage: 1.5V
• Frequency Response: 50MHz-16KHz
• S/N ratio: more than 36dB
• Dimension: 160 x 70 x 56mm (approx.)
• Weight: 193g

The USB Retro Microphone is yours for $20 over at the USB Geek website.

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Fans of all thing retro can now keep an eye at the current date and time and do their mathematics home works using this old school style calculator watch.

Ready for the ultimate nerd gadget? You have to try this calculator watch. Not only is it super-stylin’, it’s also a great way to solve math problems and impress your friends.

The Cal-Q-Tek Calculator Watch features a vinyl strap with a plastic casing. The timepiece measures approximately 1.25×9.75 and the is available over at fredflare.com for $18.

For those of you who enjoyed last year’s Retro Style USB 2.0 Webcam, here’s a tiny LED projector in a similar cool looking old school design that should be right up your alley.

Tiny LED Projector with built-in rechargeable battery and a speaker. Simply connect your Digital devices, such as cellphones, laptops, netbooks, PC, digital cameras, VCD/DVD players, iPod, PMP players, via the RCA and USB cable – then project your film, music concert, PowerPoint presentation on the wall or ceiling.

Featuers:

• Cuboid Tiny Projector
• Plug-and-Play
• Standard Camera screw-hold
• Connected Interface: RCA cable
• Resolution: 640 x 480 pixel
• Light source: 3W LED
• Picture Size: 15 – 48 inch
• Contract Ratio: 200:1
• Video Source: Composite Video In (iPod Video Compatible (PAL/NTSC)
• Video Input: AV IN (iPod Video compatible)
• Speaker: Built-in Loudspeaker
• Size: 6 x 6 x 3.8 cm

The Retro Tiny LED Projector is available from the Gagdet Brando website for $219.

Fans of the Transformers robots will soon be able to get their hands on a new edition of Takara Tomy’s classic Transformers wristwatch that was first released in the 80s.

The LCD on the watch features 170 LEDs to display rudimentary graphics which depict a smiley face, sleepy face, or the Autobots symbol. The watch also displays the time and various letters on the LCD.

Here’s a video of the original watch from 1983:

Two versions of the Chrono Label will be released – a Cybertron Autoceptor version and a Destron Time Limit watch which displays the same dot graphics.

The Transformers Chrono Label watch can be pre-ordered from the NCSX shop. The product will ship in mid-late August 2009 and the price is set to $290.90.

Thomas Thomassen created this beautiful retro media center PC for his final project in BA (Hons) modelmaking for design and media at the Arts Institute in Bournemouth.

The making of the model involved a range of various processes. One of the ones I used the most was vacuumforming. It was by this process that most of the parts where created.

On the Inside

• VIA Epia 13000 miniITX
• SilenX CPU fan
• 1GB RAM
• 100GB 2.5″ Harddrive
• Soundgraph iMON Remote Control

Visit Thomas’s website for more photos and info about the Retro Media Center PC.

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Remember those Space Invaders Headphones that we wrote about this summer? The wait is over – this fun and geeky audio accessory is now available from the NCSX shop.

Two styles are on offer – black circumaural headphones with a single white-pixel Invader and the original logo imprinted on each phone or a pair of pink headphones decorated with the Space Invaders logo and two miniature Invaders on the top and bottom of the text.

The design of the headphones is one of easy adjustability so that the phones swivel freely just like the Koss UR 20 headphones that we use from time to time. An adjustable headband allows users to lengthen the distance between the phones and the band.

The Space Invaders Headphones are available from the NCSX shop for $25.90 a pop.

We’ve covered a few USB cup warmers here at GeekAlerts, like the the hub and clock one. But if you like to go more retro, maybe this gas stove model will be better suited.

Product Specifications:

• Designed as a classic gas stove
• On / Off switch
• Flame-like LED
• Powered by USB
• Available colors: Orange and Blue
• Size: 140*125*28mm
• Weight: 145g

The USB Gas Stove Cup Warmer is available from the gadget4all.com website for $15.

Yet another fun and cool item for the fans of modern retro gadgets – an old school styled phone receiver that you can use for your modern-day VoIP calls.

The green plastic headset measures 8.5(W) x 2.5(H) x 2.5(D) inches and conveniently plugs into the 3.5mm microphone and headphone jacks on your computer.

The Internet Phone is available from the UrbanOutfitters.com website for $15.

This golden pouch in the shape of a retro boombox doubles as a speaker and connects to portable audio players and other digital products using a 3.5mm stereo audio plug.

The Mini Boombox iPod Speaker Pouch measures 2 x 4 inches and features two water resistant speakers and a a 1400 milliwatt stereo amplifier. The product is sold over at the fredflare.com website for $24.

(Via Chip Chick)

If the Darth Vader Popcorn Machine is a bit too geek for you, maybe this beautiful retro inspired hot-oil model will be better suited to take your movie nights to the next level.

…this stainless-steel electric kettle pops up to 16 cups/1 gallon of fresh, hot popcorn per batch. A built-in stirring mechanism ensures light, fluffy kernels every time. Includes measuring spoon for oil and measuring cup for corn kernels.

The Retro Hot-Oil Popcorn Maker is yours for $99.99 from the Chef website.

(Via Home Improvement Ideas)

This new retro inspired television set will turn your 3rd generation iPod Nano into a TV – giving you a fun way to increase the screen size and volume of your Apple player.

This mini TV-set enhances the Nano’s video feature by magnifying its screen up to 2.8 inches and playing the sound through speakers.

Styled like a combo TV and VCR, a Nano TV and iPod Nano together offer the same kind of functionality that an old-school TV combo used to. Even more, in fact, as the Nano can store far more video that could be recorded on a bulky old video tape!

Its light weight and compact size also means that the Nano TV is ideal for flights or to take with you when travelling too.

The iPod Nano 3G TV will soon be available from the Thumbs Up UK website. The suggested retail price has been set to £14.99 (about $23 USD).

Fans of modern retro gadgets like the Telephone USB Hub and the iPod Speaker Dock Lamp can now “enjoy” waking up to the sound of classic game show themes with this alarm clock designed like an old TV.

It displays color changing text patterns that would easily get annoying while trying to sleep. Luckily it includes a remote for turning off the display among other things.

Features

• The clock has a TV test signal background like years of yonder, and it plays game show jingles
• Made of durable plastic materials
• LCD displays hour and minute, 12 hour format
• Month and date display button
• 4 different alarms
• Three function buttons: Mood light ON/OFF button, Mode Button, Set Button
• Remote control mood light ON/OFF up to 2 meter
• Colorful flash mood light
• A handle on the top for easy to carry
• Powered by 3 x AAA batteries or 4.5V DC adaptor (both not included).

The Retro TV Game Show Alarm Clock with Remote Control ($19.99) from SourcingMap is powered using 3 x AAA batteries or a 4.5V DC adaptor (not included in the price).

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Bdbondy, a member of the Etsy online marketplace, has created a series of old school webcams that will make this Retro Style Webcam look like something from the future.

There is a total of eight cams to choose from, based on vintage cameras like Spartaflex, Kodak Brownie Bullseye, an antique folding model, and more.

The price range from $25 for this model up to $50 for the folding one with flash.

Visit Bdbondy’s Shop over at Etsy to see all available old school webcams.

After having read about the USB Retro Arcade Controller featured here at GeekAlerts last week, Curt emailed us a tips about this cool Atari 2600 USB joystick.

The controller is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux and works with almost any Emulator (MAME Stella, etc.) and almost any game that can map and use a standard gamepad as a controller.

The Classic USB Joystick Controller is available for $14.99 (with discounts if you order more than one) from the Legacy Engineering Group website.

Thank you Curt!

This USB-powered gamepad is capable of playing MAME arcade games and it also features an extra port, so that you can plug in your good ol’ Atari 2600 joystick.

Now you can have a joystick for your more modern emulated games, as well as a port so you can play those old Atari games properly.

Features

• USB Joystick, OS X and Windows compatible
• Works with most software emulation packages
• Added DB-9 port for Atari joystick capability!

The USB Retro Arcade Controller is yours for $39.99 over at the ThinkGeek website.

This retro inspired cherry wood finish iPod dock allows you to charge you portable audio player while listening to music, and it’s also equipped with an alarm clock function.

Features:

• iPod charging dock plays your favorite tunes
• Alarm function wakes to AM/FM radio or iPod with snooze feature
• Digital display
• Size: 9 x 6 x 5 inches

The Retro iPod Dock with Clock Radio is available from JCPenney for $79.99

(Via Chip Chick)

Jeff Davis, an American industrial designer probably most known for his Record Bowls, has now come out with a line of retro inspired jewelry.

The necklaces and earrings are available in three models – cassette, 45 rpm and headphones – and they are all made from recycled records.

You can get Jeff Davis’s Recycled Record Necklaces and Recycled Record Earrings for $25 a pop from the UncommonGoods website.

Just like yesterday’s Retro USB Microphone, this 4-port USB 2.0 compliant rotary dial phone hub is another fun example of adding retro design to modern day gadgets.

Product Specifications:

• USB 2.0
• 4 ports hub
• Turns the cover to use the hub
• Prevent any dust get into the port
• Support Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
• Size: 115*115*33mm
• Weight: 120g

The USB Telephone 4-Port Hub is available from the gadget4all.com website for $15.

(The Red Ferret Journal via Geeky Gadgets)

If you don’t mind using a wire for your computer mic, here’s a radio inspired alternative to the Retro Wireless USB Microphone that we covered last month.

Features:

• Stylish retro design
• Built-in audio decode chipset, allow to transfer audio signal with USB cable
• Built-in microphone, available for Skype, MSN, AOL, iChat, etc
• Individual microphone mute button
• Volume up / Volume down switch
• Support Window 2000/XP/Vista
• Dimension: 88 x 88 x 210mm (approx.)
• Weight: 151g

The USB Retro Microphone is available from USB Brando for $32.